GDonate

Looks just like Google but it’s not. From the About page:

What’s this site about?

This site earns money for charity when you do Google searches.

What do I need to do to contribute?

Conducting your Google searches here is all you need to do. Please help us make this site popular by telling your friends about it.

Which charities benefit?

At the moment the only charities that benefit are the charities here. If gdonate.com gets popular enough we have plans to allow you to save your preferences so benefits can go to the charity you choose.

Are you affiliated with Google?

No, we are not affiliated with Google in anyway.

So how does it work?

The charities are members of the Google Adsense program which pays them directly. Each search doesn’t earn vast sums but lots of searches here by millions of people all over the world will raise some considerable sums directly for the charities.

What do you get out of this?

Nothing, and we have no plans to gain anything later either. This site was setup and maintained as a benevolent gesture and our reward is seeing YOU generate large sums for charity by doing nothing more than conducting your searches here.

Looks like Amazon s coming after Adsense.

With Omakase Amazon has plunged into contextual, content-sensitive advertising itself, which differently than the old Amazon Associate program (where you would select specific books to promote on your pages and received a small commission for each such sale), provides dynamic, “intelligent” product links based on the specific content of your own web page.

Just like Google’s AdSense program, you need to place a snippet of code inside your Web pages to let Amazon scan, read and feed-back the most relevant ads for Amazon titles that are most fitting for your content.

But the major issue here is that most online publishers got as excited about this new announcement as much as they got worried and fearful that the new Omakase program is incompatible with AdSense itself, due to Google legal restrictions in using other competing contextual advertising services next to its.

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Recently AdSense has opened up AdWords refferals to all countries. Now anyone can refer a new customer to AdWords. The payout for an AdWord referral is quite simple.

You’ll earn $20 once the advertiser you’ve referred spends at least $100 with AdWords.

Not too bad at all! Start referring friends and colleagues today.

Well Chris has put together a nice post. Some good advice to those who blog to “pay the rent”. It reminded me of something a high school football coach once rattled off one day after practice…

# Distractions - there is always something more interesting to do. Reward yourself by getting the dull stuff done now so you can get to the more enjoyable tasks
# Hunger - make sure you feed yourself, I find I just can not concentrate unless I have eaten but be careful to not over do it as being bloated is just as bad!
# Dehydration - it’s right what they say, you need to regularly drink fluids, preferably not the ones that make you desperate for … comfort breaks
# Lack of oxygen - I always think and work better when I get time to get out in the fresh air
# Lack of interest - so important I don’t mind reiterating over and over, if you are starting a blog write about something you are interested in, it makes maintaining it long term so much easier
# Fatigue - get rest, people who are tired not only do less work, the work they produce is crap

Every point that Chris makes can be directly tied to the performance of a top notch attlete. So the next time your down, tired or lazy think about how if you want to succeed as a blogger you’ve got to treat it as if your an attlete. There will be times you just don’t have the energy to write just like there are days when that pro attlete awakes and doesn’t want to practice. In the end it those who are stronger and can fight past.

Funny video of a boy punching his brother.